Month: June 1974

British Leyland Britain’s biggest employer is to cut its labour force. The news was given to union men in London yesterday by top Leyland officials. They gave warning that there […]

THE GUARDIAN TRIUMPH NEWS At the Triumph car plant in Coventry—-part of the British Leyland Group—a one day strike by 1,200 clerical workers stopped production and made 5,500 other workers […]

Clifford Webb writes British Leyland’s unofficial combined shop stewards committee yesterday called for immediate action to put threshold pay claims into official procedure at all the group’s 59 United Kingdom […]

THE GUARDIAN STANDARD TRIUMPH NEWS Production was halted yesterday in Coventry at the Triumph car factory and 9,000 workers laid off because of a strike by clerical staff. The strikers, […]

Harry Webster, 57-year-old technical director of Austin Morris, has resigned and is leaving British Leyland at the end of the month. Webster, an engineer of immense standing in the motor […]

British Leyland have obtained an industrial development certificate to build a £10m foundry on land adjoining their existing foundry complex at Wellingborough, Northants. Confirming this last night, a company spokesman […]

By Raymond Perman Labour Staff Workers at British Leyland’s Austin-Morris car assembly plant at Cowley, voting in a secret ballot for the first time, have rejected Mr Alan Thornett, a […]

By Clifford Webb British Leyland has submitted an application to the Department of Industry for permission to build a new car plant at Moon’s Moat, a 100 acre site at […]

Into the future, with Spen King ‘The next Rover model will be very much a Rover car. It will be better than previous Rovers. A lot better, actually.’ Rover-Triumph head […]